Software Engineer II

As a Software Engineer II, you will design and build scalable backend services that power next-generation agentic experiences, enabling intelligent workflows and AI agents for enterprises worldwide. You will work at the intersection of distributed systems, cloud services, and large language models (LLMs), collaborating across engineering, product, and design teams to deliver reliable, secure, and impactful AI-powered capabilities. This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your technical growth, deepen your expertise in AI and cloud-scale systems, and contribute to shaping the future of enterprise productivity. Microsoft offers a hybrid work environment, with employees working from the office three days per week and the flexibility to work remotely for the remainder of the week.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

- Works with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of features.

- Contributes to the identification of dependencies, and the development of design documents for a product area with little oversight.

- Creates and implements code for a product, service, or feature, reusing code as applicable.

- Contributes to efforts to break down larger work items into smaller work items and provides estimation.

- Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) working on-call to monitor system/product feature/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions and gains approval to restore system/product/service for simple problems.

- Remains current in skills by investing time and effort into staying abreast of current developments that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python